Definition of Pagrus

1. Noun. A genus of Sparidae.

Exact synonyms: Genus Pagrus
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Sparidae, Sparidae
Member holonyms: Pagrus Pagrus, Red Porgy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pagrus

Pagellus
Pagellus centrodontus
Pagenstecher's circle
Paget
Paget's cells
Paget's disease
Paget's disease of the nipple
Paget-Eccleston stain
Paget-von Schrotter syndrome
Pagnolesque
Pago Pago
Pagophila
Pagophila eburnea
Pagophilus
Pagophilus groenlandicus
Pagrus (current term)
Pagrus pagrus
Paguridae
Pagurus
PahA dioxygenase
Pahang
Pahari
Paharis
Pahlavi
Pahlevi
Pahvant Valley fever
Pahvant Valley plague
Paige
Pain
Paine

Literary usage of Pagrus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1859)
"Young. Amboyna. Purchased of Mr. Frank. ? b. Adult: skin : bad state. Ceylon. Collected by F. Kelaart, MDA£ 18. Pagrus*. Pagrus, Cuv. ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"A more remarkable peculiarity is that of a Cape Pagrus, ... (3) It a also the Sp. pagrus of Brunnich, but not that of ..."

3. Library of Natural History by Richard Lydekker (1901)
"As our example of the fourth subfamily which contains several genera, among which Pagrus is the typical one, we select the gilt- heads (Chrysophrys), ..."

4. The Natural History of Ireland by William Thompson, James R. Garrett, George Dickie (1849)
"On the 28th of April, wheatears were met with about Navarino; ^nd on the 12th of May a few were seen on Mount Pagrus, above Smyrna. ..."

5. Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales by Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods (1883)
"The genus Pagrus or as we term it in the vernacular " Schnapper," a word of Dutch origin, is distinquished by an oblong compressed body, with scales of ..."

6. Handbook of the Fishes of New Zealand by R. A. A. Sherrin (1886)
"SCHNAPPER (Pagrus unicolor}. Length about three and three-quarters the length of the head, and two and three-quarters the height of the body; ..."

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